Flute with a Carving of a Bird
Ka'igwu (Kiowa)
Southern Plains
Plains
collected 1902
Wood, native-tanned leather, glass bead, sinew, buckskin, and paint
Overall: 21 7/16 × 1 5/16 in. (54.5 × 3.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9862
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Object Name
Musical Instrument
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Provenance
Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Oklahoma, 1902-1904; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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